She doesn't take her ex-husband as Qian Zhongshu's son-in-law seriously.
Chang Shana and Yang Weicheng married in 1953, Yang Weicheng is the eldest son of the architect Yang Kuanlin, the two are talented men and women, very compatible. However, due to various reasons, their marriage gradually broke down and eventually ended in divorce.
Yang Weicheng later became the second husband of Qian Zhongshu's beloved daughter Qian Yuan. For Chang Shana, this short marriage experience is not important, she has understated it in her biography, and does not even mention the other party's name.
There are so many wonderful things in her life that this little thing is not worth mentioning.
Chang Shana was born in France, her father Chang Shuhong was a painter and her mother was a sculptor. In 1936, her father decided to return to China to develop Dunhuang art, and took her and her mother back to China together.
On the ship, Chang Shana was shocked when she heard the news of the "77 Incident". When the ship arrived in Shanghai, they found war and parting, the bombardment was overhead, and they moved frequently.
While in Guiyang, their hotel was hit by an incendiary bomb and they fled to a church. When the father found them, the mother was shocked and blurted out, "God forbid!".
Since then, she has embraced Catholicism.
In 1940, the family moved to Chongqing, and in a short period of tranquility, her younger brother Jialing was born, and Chang Shana also transferred to the local primary school and learned an authentic Sichuan dialect.
In her spare time, she feeds chickens and rabbits, dogs and sheep, all of which are recorded by her father's brush. In the upheaval of his life, his father never forgot his Dunhuang dream.
An opportunity to make the dream come true, Luoyang Longmen Grottoes of the large relief "Empress Rite Buddha" was stolen and sold, ** everywhere, newspapers began to call for the protection of Dunhuang art.
Under this pressure, the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China prepared for the establishment of the "National Dunhuang Art Research Institute", and Chang Shuhong was appointed as the director of the preparatory committee. My father wanted to go to Dunhuang for "exile", but my mother was naturally unwilling, but the cold war and anger were to no avail.
Her mother couldn't help but complain to Chang Shana: "Your father is crazy and wants to go to Gansu!."Do you know what it is to live in Gansu?They all live in caves!Regardless of the ground, my father went to Dunhuang.
Half a year later, he will drag the whole family into that "sand nest". That year, Chang Shana was 12 years old, and her younger brother Jialing was less than two years old. The journey to Dunhuang began, and the family took a dilapidated open-top truck, along the Qilian Mountains, through the Hexi Corridor, all the way to the northwest bumpy and desolate.
Wrapped tightly in her old sheepskin coat, the young Chang Shana recited a bleak folk song: "Out of Jiayu Pass, two tears are not dry, look at the Gobi Desert in front, and look at the Ghost Gate Pass ...... back."She didn't know the meaning of the trip to Dunhuang, only knew that her mother's sorrow, the cold to the bone, and the boundless Gobi Desert were deeply imprinted in her heart.
Chang Shana and her mother Chen Zhixiu 02 A month later, the family finally arrived at the Mogao Grottoes. In the dark mud house, dinner was ready, a bowl of boiled noodles, a bowl of vinegar, and a bowl of large grains of salt for each person.
My father said embarrassedly, "There are no vegetables here, so we'll make them delicious later!""The sky in Dunhuang is blue, the surroundings are silent, and the murals that have never been seen before are amazing.
Amid the faint sound of wind chimes, Chang Shana walked around the cave excitedly, fascinated by the dazzling murals. Because there was no one to go to school within a radius of dozens of miles, Chang Shana went to study in a middle school 400 kilometers away in 1944.
Every school holiday, she would return to Dunhuang and copy the murals with the adults. Under the guidance of her father, she practiced solid children's skills. During their days in Dunhuang, they lived a miserable life, unable to eat meat all year round, and sometimes could only use potatoes to satisfy their hunger.
Her mother, who was a Catholic, had to copy Buddha statues every day, and she was tormented by contradictions, and she felt miserable. At that time, his father was also under great pressure, and he became restless due to a shortage of personnel and insufficient funds.
The mother felt aggrieved and sad, and she was getting thinner and thinner in the long sand. Just when they were feeling hopeless, a man appeared like a savior, his name was Zhao Zhongqing, and he was the new general affairs officer.
Under his sweet words, his mother eloped with him.
In the family photo in 1941, her younger brother Jialing was only 5 years old, and 14-year-old Chang Shana grew up overnight, she gave up her studies to learn to make shoes and clothes, and took care of the family on behalf of her mother.
For a long time, she followed her father and called her mother a "cheap thing". As time passed, his father's wounded heart was gradually soothed by reason, and he devoted himself to the study of the cave.
No matter how difficult it was, as long as it was something that my father firmly believed in, he always insisted on his persistent pursuit of faith with self-confidence and determination not to succumb to fate, and this spirit also tempered and educated me.
During the days of dependence, Chang Shana was as resilient as her father, reading famous books, studying history and art history, and gaining knowledge that her peers could not get from textbooks.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, my father took their siblings to Chongqing to report on their work. When passing through Lanzhou, in order to expand the influence of Dunhuang, my father held a "Chang Shuhong Father and Daughter Painting Exhibition", and it is incredible that those beautiful and exquisite facsimiles were made by a 14-year-old girl.
This exhibition changed Chang Shana's fate, and foreign teacher Ye Lihua was attracted by the exhibition, and she was willing to sponsor Chang Shana to study in the United States. The only condition is to take away one hundred copies of Dunhuang copied by Chang Shana at the same time.
After much deliberation, the father agreed. When signing the contract, he added a clause that "you must take it with you when you return home, and you must not be in the United States**". In 1948, Chang Shana went to the United States, and when the plane flew together, she cried loudly.
Crying all the way, she walked into this strange country.
After studying in the United States, Chang Shana chose to enter an art school to study painting. When the news of the founding of the People's Republic of China came, the international students cheered and were determined to use the knowledge they had learned to serve the motherland.
However, the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea made American society hostile to Chinese students, and Chang Shana decided to return to her motherland. In December 1950, she resolutely gave up her studies and crossed the ocean alone.
After returning to China, at the "Dunhuang Cultural Relics Exhibition" held by her father, Chang Shana got acquainted with Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin. On their recommendation, she became a teaching assistant in the Department of Construction at Tsinghua University, and had the privilege of living opposite Lin Huiyin and his wife, listening to Lin Huiyin's teachings every day, which became the starting point for her to turn to arts and crafts design.
In 1953, Chang Shana married Yang Weicheng, but this short marriage made her unable to adapt to the Yang family's completely different living habits from her previous family, especially the indifference of the relationship between the husband and wife, and finally divorced by negotiation.
Since then, Chang Shana no longer pursues feelings, but devotes herself to arts and crafts design under the guidance of Lin Huiyin. Whether it is the gifts designed for foreign guests or the architectural decoration of the Great Hall of the People, she has given new vitality to the thousand-year-old Dunhuang murals.
In practice, she quickly grew up and became an excellent teacher at the ** Academy of Arts and Crafts. In November 1961, she was invited to visit Japan, during which she became acquainted with the delegation's Japanese translator, Cui Taishan.
Don't have children, eat in the cafeteria, and devote yourself to your work. Cui Taishan respects her opinion and supports her to devote herself to teaching. In 1963, Chang Shana took the opportunity to take students for internship to visit her uncle, and through the uncle, she saw her mother again after 20 years.
Her mother was forced by life to make a living by doing laundry, and Chang Shana would send money to her mother every month until her mother died suddenly of a heart attack. This experience made Chang Shana cherish her relationship with Cui Taishan even more, and they supported each other and grew together.
With the elimination of her mother's grievances, Chang Shana has a new understanding of marriage. As she entered middle age, she began to yearn for a child. Fortunately, at the age of 45, she was favored by God and gave birth to a son, Xiaohui.
The happiness of her family made Chang Shana happily devote herself to teaching. In 1983, she became the dean of the ** Academy of Arts and Crafts, a position she held for 15 years.
In 1998, when she was already 67 years old, she stepped down as dean, and without the shackles of administrative affairs, she went to Dunhuang almost every year. Her father once told her, "Don't forget that you are from Dunhuang."
And Lin Huiyin also said: "We should also sort out a collection of China's own patterns of the past dynasties." Chang Shana took over the baton of inheritance and flew between Beijing and Dunhuang like a swallow.
She took her graduate students to collect and sort out Dunhuang art patterns, and finally compiled and completed the book "Decorative Patterns of Dunhuang in China" to comfort Mr. Lin's soul. In 2019, "Flowers Bloom Dunhuang - Chang Shuhong and Chang Shana's Father and Daughter Art Exhibition" was held in many places, spanning 73 years, and the works of their father and daughter were reunited again.
Standing in front of the "Burning Lamp Bodhisattva" copied by Girls' Generation, Chang Shana was full of emotion. In the past few decades, she has seen her teenage self, so innocent and high-spirited;There was a faint "jingling" sound in her ears again, which was the dancing of wind chimes on the ninth floor.
Although the Mogao Grottoes will eventually disappear, the Dunhuang culture has survived. "My name is Shana, Dunhuang is also called Shazhou, and I often feel that the word 'Shana' contains some kind of fate.
It was this fate that prompted me to follow my father into the vast desert and into the magical Dunhuang Grottoes. "Telling about Dunhuang is Chang Shana's eternal theme. At the end of one of her speeches, she sang a French children's song "Under the Moonlight" in French: "In the bright moonlight, my friend Paul, please lend me a pen and let me write a .......""A song takes her back to her childhood.
The fate of Dunhuang has been destined since birth, and her love for Dunhuang will make her cry forever.